The Picts were the aboriginal peoples of what is today NorthernScotland. They left no written records and for this reason we havelittle insight into their society.

The Kingdom of Pictland was proclaimed a sovereign nation on March 3,1812 C.E., in a Decretum Regius by His Majesty King George III (not tobe confused with the King of England), Hereditary High King of theNorthern Picts.

The word Picti means "painted people" in Latin and probably referredto their custom of either tattooing their bodies or embellishingthemselves with war paint in preparation for battle. The Irish namefor them, Cruithni, means "the people of the designs".

Their language is a mystery, the meaning of the symbols they carvedinto stele and stones remains an enigma. Several examples of stonePictish dwellings have been uncovered in the isles Orkney but little,if anything, remains of their wood and earthen structures that werelocated on the Scottish mainland.